git clone keeps failing with 'early EOF'

[Steckelfisch]

I'm not sure if this is the correct location to ask,
but: git cloning other projects from github works as expected.

git clone https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git
Cloning into 'hosts'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 80500, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (432/432), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (58/58), done.
error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 5 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL (err 8)
error: 2329 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

as-per-google I applied:

git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1
git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000
git config --global http.lowSpeedLimit 0
git config --global http.lowSpeedTime 999999

but no succes:

git clone https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git
Cloning into 'hosts'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 80500, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (350/350), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (52/52), done.
error: RPC failed; curl 56 GnuTLS recv error (-9): Error decoding the received TLS packet.
error: 4862 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

(not completly the same...)

I'm on Ubuntu 24.10
git version 2.45.2

Installing via docker works, but I would like to use this method.

any pointers on how to fix or debug would be appreciated.

Thanx.